Auxico plans to build US$116M rare earth refinery in Colombia
Auxico Resources Canada (CSE: AUAG) is making plans to build a 10,000-sq.-metre rare earth refinery in the free trade zone in the city of Santa…
Rare Earths
GMS: Rare earth elements market under the spotlight
Demand for rare earths is projected to increase as much as ten times between 2030 and 2040, and many countries have designated them as critical…
Update: Greenland Minerals tanks as uranium ban leaves project in limbo
Shares in Greenland Minerals (ASX: GGG) fell almost 30% on November 12 to 8.8 Australian cents as the company resumed share trading following Greenland government’s decision…
Greenland bans uranium mining, blocking vast rare earths project
Greenland’s parliament has passed a bill to ban uranium mining and exploration in the Danish territory, effectively blocking the development of the vast Kvanefjeld rare…
Rio Tinto and USGS team up for Montana critical mineral hunt
Australian diversified major Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has teamed up with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to hunt for critical…
Hochschild to spin off Chilean rare earths company
Hochschild Mining (LSE: HOC; US-OTC: HCHDF) is spinning off its Chilean rare earth subsidiary Aclara Resources and plans to list it on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It…
Green Energy Metals Snapshot: Eight companies with large ambitions
Canada is rich with resources needed to fuel the electrification of modern society, and Canadian companies are rich with ideas for finding lithium, nickel, copper,…
Universities collaborate to kickstart Australia’s critical mineral future
A new collaboration between Curtin University and The Australian National University (ANU) aims at helping Australian miners better identify, characterize and extract critical minerals to…
Coalition urges U.S. Congress to incentivize permanent rare earth magnet making
A group of rare earth industry players have sent a letter to the U.S. Congress urging lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation to incentivize the domestic…
Scientists ‘stretch’ lithium-ion battery storage capacity, lifespan
Researchers at the University of Southern California are working on a development aimed at discouraging the degradation of lithium-ion batteries’ structural integrity, which is one…
Lynas gets extension to build waste plant in Malaysia
Malaysia has provided rare earths producer Lynas Corp (ASX: LYC) with some breathing room for finding a permanent location for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility for its processing operations on the country’s east coast. The Australian…
Vital Metals buying rare earths properties from Quebec Precious Metals
Australian Vital Metals (ASX: VML) and Quebec Precious Metals (QPM) (TSXV: OPM; OTC: CJCFF) have signed a binding term sheet for Vital to acquire QPM’s…